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Michael
Giles

Just what the doctor ordered

By Michael Giles A COUPLE of things caught my eye in the past week; one of them being the decision by Leongatha medico Dr Chris Webster to make public comment on the impact of the mushroom murders on the local community, and in particular, on the...

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Michael Giles

15 Jul 2025

News

Cold hands warm hearts for visiting media at Korumburra Baptist Church

THE first Sunday church service at the Korumburra Baptist Church, on Sunday, July 13, after the verdict the previous Monday, was always likely to attract some media attention. However, given the 252 journalists and media outlets recorded on the...

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Michael Giles

13 Jul 2025

Football

Seaguls and pesky geese both scattered by Phillip Island Bulldogs

PHILLIP Island has emerged victorious in a season-defining contest against premiership contenders Tooradin-Dalmore at the Cowes Kennel on Saturday, defeating the second-placed Seagulls in convincing style by 66 points. The Bulldogs increased their...

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Michael Giles

13 Jul 2025

News

‘Not our video to give’, says South Gippsland Shire

MYSTERY surrounds how media outlets got their hands on explosive new CCTV video footage, from the Koonwarra Transfer Station, which appears to show mushroom murderer, Erin Patterson, dumping rubbish at the tip little more than 30 minutes after her...

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Michael Giles

12 Jul 2025

News

After a thousand useless words here’s a picture that brings peace

IT WAS a quiet day in Korumburra on Wednesday. Kelly’s Bakery was doing a brisk trade around lunchtime. People were in and out of the post office for parcels and their Tatts tickets. And Gonzalo the artist from Fish Creek was up on his scaffolding...

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Michael Giles

10 Jul 2025

News

Social media storm over doctor’s ‘sociopathic nut bag’ remarks

A STORM has erupted on social media in the wake of the candid remarks by Leongatha medico, Dr Chris Webster, about triple mushroom murderer Erin Patterson. Variously referring to Mrs Patterson, in print and TV interviews both here and overseas...

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Michael Giles

09 Jul 2025

News

Mushoom murder video: What really happened on the way to Tyabb and what didn’t

A LOT was made during the 11-week mushroom murder trial at Morwell of diarrhoea, unfortunately. Some of it tragic, some of it fabricated. Watery stools, explosive diarrhoea, frequency, consistency, inspections by nurses, analysis. Whether one such...

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Michael Giles

09 Jul 2025

News

Erin Patterson: A crime what she put them through

ONE of the heroes of the health response to the medical mayhem caused by Erin Patterson, when she poisoned her four lunch guests that day, was young, nightshift registrar at Dandenong Hospital, Dr Beth Morgan. Of course, they were all heroes in the...

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Michael Giles

08 Jul 2025

News

Evil in our midst: Jury finds Erin Patterson guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty

LEONGATHA mother of two, Erin Patterson, has been found guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder after a marathon trial in the Supreme Court at Morwell. The jury returned its verdict on day six of its deliberations, on Monday...

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Michael Giles

07 Jul 2025

News

Mushrooms, media, Morwell… the marathon murder trial goes on

IT’S Thursday, so it must be the fourth day of jury deliberations in the marathon mushroom murder trial at Morwell. There’s three marquees set up in the forecourt of the justice complex off Commercial Road. Photographers hover around the...

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Michael Giles

03 Jul 2025

News

Still, we wait… but here’s what happens when the verdict comes

IT’S day three of the jury’s deliberations in the Erin Patterson murder trial at Morwell. But by lunchtime on Wednesday, July 2, there’s still no verdict and no questions either from a jury that has spent two nights sequestered in a Latrobe...

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Michael Giles

02 Jul 2025

News

Truth be told, Gippsland has a lot to answer for, they say

THE State Government this week tabled the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s final reports, documents which are littered with violence against the indigenous people of the Gippsland region. The high-profile massacre of as many as 150 Gunai/Kurnai...

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Michael Giles

02 Jul 2025

News

Slow, wet, dark and gloomy as the wait goes on at Morwell

IT’S A slow, cold, wet day in Morwell today as the jury continues its deliberations for a second day in the Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts. Where there was an intense burst of media activity in the sunshine...

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Michael Giles

01 Jul 2025